Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Digital Literature for Children
Texts, Readers and Educational Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book is the result of a research project carried out by the research group GRETEL from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) on children’s and adolescents’ digital literary education. It offers some of the outcomes of this project and combines them with other contributions from internationally...
Enacting Nature
Ecocritical Perspectives on Indigenous Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In the ecological challenges of the twenty-first century, interculturally sensitive understandings of nature, place, and environment are essential for the development of a planetary community.
Acknowledging that the future of humankind is global, this volume explores the multi-faceted semantics of...
Queering Paradigms V
Queering Narratives of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The authors of this edited volume use a queer perspective to address colonialism as localized in the Global South, to analyse how the queer can be decolonized and to map the implications of such conversations on hegemonic and alternative understandings of modernity. This book is distinct in at least...
Public Diplomacy
European and Latin American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Public diplomacy is a diplomatic and international communication activity aimed at foreign publics and seeking to create a positive image and/or political influence, contributing to the achievement of foreign policy goals.
On June 9th, 2015, public diplomacy scholars and practitioners coming from...
Child and Nation
A Study of Political Socialisation and Banal Nationalism in France and England
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Where do feelings of national belonging come from? Why is it that this belonging often seems both fundamental and banal, both intangible and omnipresent?
This book argues that the answers to these questions lie in childhood and the socialisation to the nation that we experience as children. It suggests...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Despite the considerable amount of criticism that Vladimir Nabokov’s literary legacy has produced since the sixties, the studies on his female characters are scarce, except the ones on Lolita. This volume delves into Nabokov’s women from different perspectives and points of view. The contributions...
by Mable Chan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The present study examines grammaticality judgment data, production data and acceptability judgment data from 243 Cantonese second language learners and a control group of 12 native English speakers. Research areas concern (a) the role of the first language in the acquisition of be by Cantonese second...
Histoire, Forme et Sens en Littérature
La Belgique francophone Tome 2 : LÉbranlement (19141944)
Language: French
Release Date: July 26, 2017
L’invasion allemande d’août 1914 suscite en Belgique un véritable sentiment patriotique qui se manifeste par la résistance imprévue de l’armée belge. À Noël 1914, les troupes impériales sont enlisées dans les plaines de la rive droite de l’Yser.
Le viol de la neutralité...
A History of Political Trials
From Charles I to Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The modern use of international tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and crimes against humanity is often considered a positive development. Many people think that the establishment of special courts to prosecute notorious dictators represents a triumph of law over impunity. In A History of...
A Late Middle English Remedy-book (MS Wellcome 542, ff. 1r-20v)
A Scholarly Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, housing a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedy-book based on the medical lore of Hippocrates, Socrates and Galen. A glossary, notes and introduction also accompany the edition. The introduction has been conceived as...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Qu’elle soit appelée meurtrière, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide élude les catégories usuelles : elle dérange l’ordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquiète les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (français et anglais)...
New Perspectives on Irish TV Series
Identity and Nostalgia on the Small Screen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Within the growing field of television studies, little work has yet been done on the Irish context. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering new and compelling studies of contemporary Irish TV series. Fictional TV series, which constitute an autonomous genre within the broader cultural phenomenon...
Italian Political Cinema
Public Life, Imaginary, and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that takes in reflections on public...
Care and Conflict
The Story of the Jewish Orphanage at Norwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Norwood, an Anglo-Jewish childcare institution founded in the late nineteenth century, was one of several hundred such institutions in the UK, but the only Jewish one. Throughout its history, Norwood had the unusual task of adapting its childcare approach to both British and Jewish concerns. This...